Photo by Bob Baikauskas
Lincoln Hills
Photography Club
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The Photo Club is comprised of residents of the Sun City Lincoln Hills community in Lincoln, CA.
Below is a list of our monthly meetings and activities
General Meeting - 2nd Wednesday @ 8:30am
The General Meeting usually features a guest speaker on a specific aspect of photography. It also is a forum for the President or Board Members to discuss current and upcoming events of interest to the membership.
Summaries of General Meeting Presentations are archived HERE
YouTube links to General Meeting videos are HERE
Field Trips
Find information on recent and upcoming trips HERE
Exhibits
Exhibitions offer club members an avenue to show their photographs. Some use these occasions as an opportunities to sell their work. Find information on current and upcoming exhibits and how to participate HERE
Lifestyle Photography Group - First Thursday
The Lifestyle Group provides photo journalistic services to Sun City Clubs and Community Association sponsored events and activities. To learn more visit the Group's page HERE
Board Meeting - One day before the General Meeting
Board Meetings are open to any current Photography Club member. Copies of the approved "Board Meeting Minutes" are posted HERE
The purpose of the Photo Enhancement SIG is to help you make your photos better using photo editing software. Meetings are held in the Orchard Creek Multi-Purpose room. For more info go to the SIG's Webpage HERE
Round Table SIG - 4th Wednesday @ 8:30am
The Round Table SIG provides an opportunity for any member to discuss any topic related to photography. It is the perfect forum for asking all of those, "How do I" questions. For more info about the Round Table SIG click HERE
Print SIG - 4th Wednesday @ 10:30am
The Print SIG will meet quarterly (January, April, June, October) in the Orchard Creek Multi-purpose room immediately following the Round Table SIG. The Print SIG provides an opportunity for members to present and discuss their prints and receive feedback from fellow Club members. To learn more about the Print SIG visit our page HERE
Learning Initiative
The Learning Initiative be structured by topic and technique. Topic examples may include street photography, vacation photography and night photography; while technique examples include composition, ISO, shutter speed, selective focus, etc.
Photography Club Raises the Bar!
Lincoln Hills 15th Annual Fine Arts Show & Sale
Eight of our fellow friends and members have 32 fine art images being exhibited in the Lincoln Hills 15th Annual Fine Arts Show & Sale. The show was held in the Orchard Creek Ballroom on February 3rd and 4th.
The members who have entered a total 32 images are: Allen Adler, Bob Baikauskas, Bob Dale, Truman Holtzclaw, Michael Johnson, Patrick Jewell and Bill Szabo.
Congratulations go out to Bob Baikauskas who received a first place award and Truman Holtzclaw who received a second place award. Considering the caliber of the works on display, those are very impressive accomplishments! In addition, several of our exhibitors successfully sold their works.
January General Meeting Featured a presentation from Action Camera on Mirrorless Cameras
Truman Holtzclaw turns over the microphone to Action Camera's Rebecca Cody
Rebecca Cody, Sales Associate at Action Camera, presented a comparison between mirrorless and DSLR cameras.
DSLRs have been around a very long time. A mirror reflects light up to a prism and into the viewfinder. When the shutter button is pressed, the mirror flips up, the shutter opens and the image sensor captures the image.
A mirrorless camera has a simpler light path. After the light passes through the lens, it falls on the image sensor, which captures a preview of the image. Pressing the shutter button captures the image. The mirrorless camera body can be of simpler construction and smaller.
Rebecca favored Sony mirrorless cameras as having the most advanced features, the most important being stabilization, focus ability, and usability. She regarded the most serious disadvantage as battery life, although with recent models, this has been improved.
During the presentation, Jeff Hanner recorded a video and you can find it in our video archive - click HERE
LHPC Board Approves Implementation of Learning Initiative
The First Session Was on January 14 2018 in the Multipurpose Room at 9:00 a.m.
We announced last month that the LHPC Board approved a Learning Initiative. We had our first meeting on January 14 and Truman discussed lighting and its importance to photography. The room was packed and the presentation well received.
Rather than targeting an equipment group, ie: point and shoot cameras, the Learning Initiative will be structured by topic and technique which should benefit each equipment group at least some of the time. Topic examples may include street photography, vacation photography and night photography; while technique examples include composition, ISO, shutter speed, selective focus, etc.
The next Learning session will be February 20 in the Multipurpose Room starting at 9:00 a.m. The topic will be composition -- what are the rules and how to break them.
Truman Holtzclaw and the WOW Factor
Next Enhancement SIG Meeting - Wednesday February 7th 2018
Enhancement SIG Image Processing/Interpretive Challenge
will resume in March 2018.
Image Processed by Truman Holtzclaw
The next meeting of the Photo Enhancement SIG will be open discussion. There have been some updates to a couple of photo editing programs we can discuss. If you are new to photo editing and have questions this would be a good meeting to attend. It would also be a good meeting to attend if you have a photo that you would like help editing. Bring it on a flash drive and our resident experts will help.
As always you can bring some photos on a flash drive and present them to the group. If so be sure and include the before version of the photo. We can also talk about any new gear we got for Christmas.
I hope to see you there.
More details about this challenge can be found
CANCELLED: Yosemite Field Trip
Scheduled for February 20, 21 and 22, 2018
Cancelled because there is no snow on the valley floor and the Firefall is dry
We did this trip in 2016 with fantastic results. Yosemite is always a magical place and winters can be the best for photography and avoiding the massive crowds of summer.
One of our destinations is the natural Firefall phenomena that illuminates Yosemite’s Horsetail Falls every February. In addition to this spectacular event, The National Park is rich with photo opportunities ranging from well known locations like El Capitan and Half Dome to lesser known landmarks.
We even know the 14 secret locations touted by highly paid guides!
HOWEVER, although Yosemite is always awesome, the photo conditions are just average at this time.
We don't want to spend our time on "average" but save it for "great".
Bill Kress' Image from the February, 2016 Yosemite Field Trip
Volunteers Needed for Video Production
The Association’s Video Services Group (“VSG”), a sub-group within the Communications and Community Relations Committee, is seeking volunteers to assist with producing a variety of different types of video pieces. These videos are almost all intended for posting to our Association’s YouTube channel to be viewed by residents.
VSG is particularly interested in hearing from residents who have experience in all aspects of video creation. We want to hear from YOU if you would like to become involved with the planning, directing, camera operating, video editing, audio engineering, and/or assisting more experienced members of the group. If any of the foregoing piques your interest, please contact Peter Beckett via e-mail at videography@sclhca.com.
To learn more, click on the PDF icon:
Put the Annual Club & Community Expo on Your Calendar
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 in the Orchard Creek Ballroom
Our booth at the 2016 Club Expo
The goal of the Club Expo is to introduce Sun City Lincoln Hills residents to the many clubs and organizations within our community. For the clubs, it is an opportunity to sign up new members.
This year’s Annual Club & Community Expo will be held Tuesday, February 27, 2018 in the Orchard Creek Ballroom. We requested that two tables be placed either by the stage or next to the Secret Garden.
Brad Senn has graciously accepted to be the coordinator for this event. Club members wanting to help out, can contact Brad by clicking HERE
We'll have a short slideshow of this Expo at our March 14th General Meeting.
Ed Rotberg Shares his Passion for Photography at our February Meeting
Ed Rotberg
We are delighted to welcome Ed Rotberg as our February guest speaker. Ed is an avid photographer, and has been since 1972. He made the switch from film to ‘digital and Photoshop’ in 2003.
While Ed photographs everything from architecture and street scenes, to portraits and landscapes, his real passion is photographing wildlife and nature, especially birds. He and his wife have greatly enjoyed combining photography with their travels throughout the United States and to such places as Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Costa Rica, Tanzania and Namibia.
His work has appeared in galleries and books, and his work has been featured both inside and on the cover of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Shoreline Magazine and the cover of their current Visitor’s Guide.
Makalani Palms along Namibia stream
Ermine
Plan Ahead -- March General Meeting Is Member Show & Tell
Wednesday, March 14th in Kilaga Springs Presentation Hall
It’s a Photography Club’s biannual favorite! The March meeting will showcase a members' 'Show and Tell.'
Use this time to present anything you want in any format. So many options - photos that turned out really well, show some new equipment, or some great software, or your favorite video show or a great series of travel pictures --.
We want you to share them at the General Meeting. To give everyone a chance to show there stuff, each person will be allotted 5 minutes for their presentation.
Now, you know it’s coming and you have lots of time to prepare. Details about the Show & Tell will be announced at the end of February.
New Gallery by Bob Springer and Carmel Fedors Updates Her's
Click on photo to go to their Gallery Page on this website.
Photo by Bob Springer
Photo by Carmel Fedors
"Motion and Long Exposures" Replaces "Field Trips and Other Adventures" as the Theme of the Winter Simple Pleasures Exhibit that will be on display until April 23rd.
SLIDING HOME - Larry White - highlights the concept of one of the themes "Motion" - in our current exhibit at Simple Pleasures.
The exhibit features work by Club Members: Allen Adler, Truman Holtzclaw, Stephanie Huntingdale, Bill Kress, Klara Kleman, Diane Margetts, Joe Mello, Ron Nabity, Larry White, and James Wronkiewicz. On display until April 23rd.
Current: Kilaga Springs Spa
Kilaga Springs Spa Exhibits Pictures from Club Photographers including Allen Adler, Brad Senn, DeAtley Cahill, Klara Kleman, Mary Selfridge, Michael Johnson, Klara Klamen, Pat Monda, and Patrick Jewell. The pictures chosen for display were hung on November 5.
Year-Long Challenge: California Missions
Don't forget our year-long challenge to photograph California Missions which ends July 1, 2018. More information available on the Exhibits page HERE
Would you love to exhibit your photos at Simple Pleasures or some of the other great venues available to the Photo Club but don't know how to get started? Check out our Photo Display Guide, click on the PDF icon:
The BLOG is Here!!! Check it Out.
The latest blog post is on backing up your photos
We all know we should backup our photos but how many of us do and more importantly are we doing it properly? The latest blog post gives my opinions and that of experts on backing up photos as well as other important files and presents links to articles that deal with the subject of backups. It will discuss backup software some which is free and some you have to pay for. It will also list cloud based solutions for backing up your photos and other important files.
You may think you are doing everything right when it comes to backups but are you? Check out this blog post and then you can make an informed decision on whether to keep doing it the way you are doing it or switch to a different and hopefully better way.
The For more information go to the Blog.
We want to hear from You!
One of the nice things about the Blog is you have the ability to comment on blog posts and respond to someone else's comments. You can even put a photo in your comment. So far no one has commented on any of the posts. We were hoping members would get involved and express there opinions. In fact we encourage you to do so.
If you have any experience with, or opinions about, any of the information presented in the blog posts please share your thoughts with your fellow Club members. Post a comment. I would prefer the Blog be a conversation and not a lecture.
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One final reminder. Any member can make a Blog post. Just write it up and send it to me. You can even remain anonymous however you do have to tell me who you are but I won't use your name as the author.
To navigate to the blog look for the BLOG link at the end of the main menu, or click HERE
We hope you will enjoy this feature and participate by commenting on blog posts, responding to the comments of others, and asking questions.
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